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so glad you found 10 minutes to watch
our show i m carl azuz and we are
covering heat holograms and hotels today
on cnn 10. we'll start in the nation of
india it is not unusual for heat waves
to strike in may and june but the ones
that settled over the country last month
made it india's third hottest april in
122 years what kind of temperatures are
we talking about 104 degrees fahrenheit
or higher in the indian capital new
delhi saw seven days in a row of that
last month and while 104 is near normal
in neighboring pakistan across india's
northwest border at least two cities
there recorded highs of more than 116
degrees fahrenheit late last week a
pakistani government official said it
was like a year without a spring and
that that hadn't happened for decades a
significant lack of weather disturbances
and thunderstorms throughout april kept
temperatures high and rainfall lower
than normal that's according to the
indian government as reported by the
indian express news company there's been
huge demand for electricity as you might
imagine and that caused a coal shortage
in india most of the nation's power
comes from coal millions lost
electricity for almost nine hours a day
and hundreds of passenger train routes
were canceled through the end of this
month so that more cargo trains could
get coal to the country's power stations
schools were closed in some states
health advisories were issued that's how
india has dealt with heat waves in the
past residents were told to stay indoors
and stay hydrated but not everyone's
able to do that one indian official says
farmers construction workers people who
labor outdoors many of them have had to
suffer in the heat crops have been lost
and water levels are down so is there
any relief in sight yes this week
government forecasters expect high
temperatures in northwest india to drop
between five and seven degrees on
average and by the end of this week
temperatures in pakistan are predicted
to be near where they usually are but
the start of the monsoon rain season
which can bring lasting relief to the
region is still at least a month away
10 second trivia which of these doctors
performed the first open heart surgery
joseph lister virginia apgar daniel hale
williams or alexander fleming
in 1893 before x-rays were even
developed dr daniel hale williams saved
a life with open-heart surgery
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operating with holograms might sound
like a bit of science fiction but the
fact is this is another example of how
new technologies could eventually
reshape medicine as we know it this goes
deeper than pokemon go but let's start
there you're looking at computer
generated characters overlaid on real
world backgrounds what if you could
apply that idea to a complex medical
procedure that's one of the goals of
mixed reality as you're about to see but
the concept has its drawbacks for one
thing you need the computer equipment to
make it possible that's expensive some
people may have trouble adjusting to the
technology virtual reality for instance
can cause motion sickness there are
concerns that doctors could become too
dependent on the technology and that
they may not be able to effectively
treat people without it and it's all new
it hasn't been proven or refined yet in
the real world so it's too early to say
if this is the future of medicine or an
idea that won't work in practice however
efforts to incorporate it are advancing
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in this hospital in israel el hanon
brookheimer is mending a heart using
tools the width of pencil points called
catheters
but he can't see the heart with his own
eyes
imaging is how we understand what's
inside the patient what's going on where
we need to move our catheters my depth
perception has to be down to the sub
millimeter in recent decades advances in
imaging technologies like x-rays and
ultrasounds have helped make this
process more accurate and commonplace
but brookheimer believes mixed reality
technology can give surgeons an even
clearer picture he's developing a system
that turns medical images into holograms
heads-up display that might sound like
something out of a movie like the
three-dimensional projections you find
inside iron man's suit
but brookheimer says his company
realview has been working on a telescope
eye for almost 15 years
you need a specialized overhead device
to see these holograms though
it's like a 3d printer of points of
light so it allows the physician to see
a hologram that is hovering in front of
him he can visualize information and he
can interact with it and as brookheimer
sees it that benefits both patients and
hospitals you're going to do complex
procedures quicker easier and you can do
more of those some bigger players in
technology agree
microsoft is partnering with hospitals
and startups like new york based metavis
to adapt its hololens to device for
surgery how does
microsoft's cloud platform interact with
this technology the ability for us to be
able to pull the data from the different
sources like electronic health records
that's all cloud enabled technology
one issue that could arise slow
bandwidth
this is according to nyam ki yuan from
the national university health system in
singapore
his team is collaborating with microsoft
to trial the technology for live
operations we are trying to test out use
the use of 5g technology to
you know improve our bandwidth and
reduce our latency some are already
working on what they see as the next
milestone
projecting holograms right onto the
patient's body microsoft believes that
collaboration across the industry could
help speed up progress for brookheimer
it's all about what's best for the
patient any improvement we can have that
can reduce suffering of our patients is
my mission
five months ago a spacecraft lifted off
from texas the vehicle was made by blue
origin and for the first time it was
carrying six passengers at once blue
origin is a private american space
flight company that's received tens of
millions in grant money from nasa it
doesn't say how much it's 11 minute trip
to the edge of space costs but a ticket
was auctioned off last year for 28
million dollars and some critics have
questioned whether private space flight
will ever become affordable for the
average person blue origin's mission in
december was the third time the company
took people to space a couple of them
took cameras to document their flight of
fancy
laura i like this candle
here we go
it literally is a take your breath away
moment i mean i literally was gasping
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then of course once you're up there once
you have main engine cut off once you
have booster separation
and you can unstrap i mean it's just
magical
i went to the window as you may have
seen and turned myself upside down
so i had the perception of you know
really kind of floating in free space
above the earth
so that was amazing
i did have a little bit of motion
sickness
when i was in zero gravity near the end
um
but it was manageable
my eyes are watering
my perception and it was just a brief
one um was that i could see pretty much
the entire north american continent i
was looking for things like the moon
which i didn't see
and then of course when you see the sun
there is no atmosphere to scatter the
photons so it doesn't look yellow it
looks it looks bright white like a light
bulb
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why go all the way to space just for a
few minutes i mean once you're up there
why not check it to a hotel that's the
idea by a company called orbital
assembly it hopes to start turning this
concept into reality by 2025 or 2026 and
it would be a luxury hotel the company's
former ceo told the washington post last
year that a three and a half day stay
would cost five million dollars but
think of all the weight you'd lose up in
space
everyone's a superstar every head is in
the clouds every lover's star crossed
everyone's above the crowds who needs a
spot where you've got space you've
docked don't need a parking place the
view is great unless you're scared of
heights that fright at night just might
make your feet wish for solid ground
back down to feel all right outside but
one thing space cadets and astro nuts
can all assume is that a space hotel's
remote as well as miles closer to the
moon
glad i got through that one want to give
a shout out today to lone peak high
school it is in highland utah thanks so
much for watching cnn 10. i m carl azuz